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Kasson-Mantorville SADD members teamed up last week to paint “buckle up” on the school parking lots with one hope in mind, to save lives.
SADD, or Students Against Destructive Decisions, aims to “provide students with the best prevention tools to deal with underage drinking, drug use, impaired...

Mary Jane, also know as MJ, hopes to eventually put herself out of a job.
“I am trying to put myself out of a job basically. I don’t want people to have to live through domestic violence,” MJ said. “It doesn’t just affect the victim and the person that is doing the abusing, it affects the whole...

Kasson is one step closer to finding a city administrator. The search committee interviewed four applicants seeking the position on Sept. 29. In January, the Kasson City Council voted 3-2 to fire previous City Administrator Randy Lenth, who had served in the position for nine years. Councilman Coy...

Last week was a big week for downtown as the “new” Kasson Variety Store opened up along with two other businesses housed under the same roof, Jan’s Costumes of Kasson and Kasson Laser Graphics. The Kasson Chamber of Commerce celebrated the event with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 29 followed...

Beginning Nov. 1, the News Enterprise will be merged into its sister publication, the Dodge County Independent. Declining readership and reduced advertising revenue are the main factors leading to the merger. For the past three years, readership has declined, despite numerous efforts to provide a...

The fire department committee was disbanded; the open meeting law was discussed along with a potential change in the animal ordinance at last week’s Kasson City Council meeting.
Mayor Steve Johnson told the council and the audience “as of now there will be no fire committee, I will handle it.”
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Dodge Media, the parent company of the Dodge County Independent newspaper, has taken over ownership of Dodge County Printing.
The transaction was finalized Sept. 16, transferring ownership of the printing shop from Sueann Johnson to Rick Bussler, the owner of Dodge Media. Dodge County Printing is...

A man and a woman from Dodge County with alleged connections to a Mexican drug cartel are facing serious drug charges after police took 19 pounds of methamphetamine off the streets.
Heriberto Hurquides Salazar, 21, and Alejandra Jasmin Ochoa, 22, both of Mantorville, have been charged in Dodge...

Kasson-Mantorville kindergarteners are experiencing something that none of the previous kindergarten classes have got to experience before; a brand new kindergarten pod, or the orange pod.
The pod, along with the new east gym, playground and other outdoor improvements accounts for $5.2 million of...

Although budget discussions are still ongoing, Dodge County officials are anticipating a 2016 budget increase in the neighborhood of 5.2 percent, county board members were told last week.
The figures presented at the last board meeting showed a 2016 net levy of $12,649,159.00 compared to $12,027,...